Chengu Boasts World's Biggest Indoor Resort Complex
By wchung | 12 Jun, 2026

The Chinese are the New Century Global Center, which opened in late June in Chengdu, the world’s largest stand-alone structure.
A view of a section of the Paradise Island Water Park, which features an artificial beach, in the New Century Global Center in Chengdu, China.

A view of a section of the Paradise Island Water Park, which features an artificial beach, in the New Century Global Center in Chengdu, China.
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Inside, shop, stay at either of two 1,000-room luxury hotels, go to a skating rink, or even a fake beach or fake Mediterranean village all lit by a .

It isn’t the world’s tallest building — that honor belongs to Dubai’s Burj Khalifa; nor is it the largest — that’s the Boeing Everett Factory in Everett, Wash. What the New Century Global Center appears to be is the world’s biggest building by . Just how big is it?

Well, inside it you can fit …

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